J4CKO

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Following on from the thread on the SAW films, what film scares you the most.

I thought SAW 1 was pathetic, stuff like Schindlers list is scary but for the wrong reasons, too real, so what is scary without being based on real stuff.

I nomimate Poltergeist, the Excorcist and Quatermass and the pit.

Blair Witch project was too random, Jacobs ladder had some moments as did Flatliners.

Fantom

Most scary films go over the top and end up being comedies. I thought the ring was pretty freaky, and I never saw the Japanese version which was supposed to be worse.

kingofturds

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Think I was desensitized to scary movies as a kid. I remember watching jeepers creepers in the cinema though and seeing people too scared to go outside afterwards

paulr

Friday 13th when i was 15 on my own at midnight.

J4CKO

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I love the Return of the living dead series.

Brains, Brains Braiiins !!!

kingofturds

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This is my boomstick!

turbomatt

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Nightmare on elm street was scary when i saw it as a kid, I would be **** scared to go down my tenfoot at night to put my bmx in the garage fearing freddy would get me with his long arms Texas chain saw massacre(original one) was scary too also blair witch was freaky aswell

hux309

Alien when i was 12, never has a film scared me so much as that.

daddyscoob

I agree with the Exorcist.... remember it was made in 1970. No computers etc for effects - brilliant

Tam the bam

The Omen scared me sh!tless as a kid My favorites are The Omen, Exorcist and Halloween

Oh how could I forget The Shining, Doh, excellent film.

what would scooby do

Tales of the unexpected was scary.. watch them now and they are bland drivel

wrxjay03

Friday the 13th are good films, and texas chainsaw massacre's are pretty scary too

C17RPA

its got to be JAWS...........when your a kid,that music.nuff said

gtijames

salems lot,it and the fog are all worth a mention

Tam the bam

Deffo and The Thing

The Dogs B******s

You beet me to it,,,,,,when that f*cker came out of the water i copletely sh*t myself

corradoboy

Always loved the brooding menace in Halloween, but the most recent film to have any scare effect on me was The Descent. Probably the most subtle, realistic and shocking car crash at the start, and then every 'jump out of your seat' trick in the book used throughout. Although it doesn't scare me (except the falling head), I just love Jaws. Most scary movies have me mumbling 'don't go in the cellar', 'leave the torch, take a candle', 'if you want to get away, go upstairs when there's no other way down' [yawn]

Edited after reading the above. Yup, The Thing and The Fog are classics. Carpenter really was on a roll back then.

barry wemyss

i got made to watch the texas chain saw massacre and the last house on the left when i was nine my uncle locked me in the room with out the tv controls and i did not think about using the buttons to turn of

richie001

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Salems Lot,the part when the guys in the prison and the door opens the room fills with mist then even thou you know whats going to happen the vampire jumps out

HankScorpio

Omen and Halloween.

Music in Halloween makes the film.

webby v7 slipperwagon

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The home video i saw of this years holiday, withy my misses cooking.........HORRIFIC,like dawn of the dead but with more mess.

wrxjay03

Halloween michael myers, they are cracking films as well

Sonic'

Jacobs Ladder used to scare me until I watched it a few times and worked out what it was all about

Salems Lot with the scene described above, gave me nightmares for quite a while (I was only very young when I watched it)

nightmares of a damaged brain too (again was very young when I watched that)

Alien I still find scary as the film is primarily built on tension leading up to the climax (which isn't scary, unless you call sigourney weaver in just a pair of skimpy knickers scary, bear in mind I was about 10 when I first watched it )

ricardo

[vaguely related anecdote]
When 'Alien' was first out in the cinema I was working shifts, so I saw the film during the day in Leicester Square and then got home in the evening ready to go to work for the Sunday night, instead of going to bed.

After a long night's work I'd been awake much too long and I was ready to crash, got home eventually and crept up the stairs with my head full of images from 'Alien'... at the top of the stairs in the dark I was aware that something was different - there was a dripping noise from above me... hairs on my neck stood up and I was almost paralysed. Somebody had left the hatch to the loft open, and there was water dripping in the water tank.

After that scare I closed the curtains and got in bed (first floor) and fell into a restless sleep thinking about the dripping chains in the hold of the refinery. Shortly afterwards there was a shadow across the curtains and a huge crash against the window frame - I jumped out of bed with my heart racing thinking I was going to die.

The landlord had arranged for someone to come and fix the windows... he'd just put the ladder up.
[/vaguely related anecdote]

'Alien' for me, big screen and big sound... not the chest-bursting part but the looking for the cat part...

Tam the bam

This thread just reminded me of the 30 second horror films with bunnies lol

The Exorcist in 30 seconds with bunnies.
The Shining in 30 seconds with bunnies.

and there's more

Sonic'

And one from me regarding Blair Witch Project

Went to watch it in the cinema with some friends whilst working away in Bristol

After the film finsihed I had to head off down the motorway to a lonely country hotel, gets there after driving through about a mile of very narrow country lane with thick trees either side of the narrow road, and had to get the key from behind the large outside plant pot (had arranged to arrive late and no night porter on)

Got to my room and went to go to bed and there were bundles of fecking sticks tied together on the walls in my room

Struggled to get to sleep, but eventually dropped off

Woke up in the morning opened my room door and there were 3 piles of stones outside my door !!!!

I hadn't told anyone I had been to see the film, as the hotel was all closed up when I got there too

unclebuck

Signs.

exvaux

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darkness falls,think thats what it was called while wasted,the bit in the police station scared the s**t out of me for months,stopped me drinking tho

unclebuck

The Shining.

wrxjay03

No-one has said Chucky yet